[Techtalk] My X display is fubar

[Travis Casey]

Tuesday, June 04, 2002, 1:01:48 PM, Dave North wrote:

> Mary:
>> If you want to go to runlevel 3 just once, execute "init 3" as root.
> Robyn:
>> In the original email this lady couldn't get to a command prompt and
>> could only go into failsafe mode.

> Quite right. But that raised a question in my mind: is there some way to
> feed in a boot parameter that will cut the runlevel back (bypassing
> graphic login? Anybody know? I'd like to know how to do that...)

Yes, you can pass the runlevel as a parameter.  If you're using lilo,
you'd type "[bootname] [runlevel]" as the command.  E.g., if I want to
boot Linux at runlevel 3 on my laptop, I do:

linux 3

If I wanted to boot my old linux kernel, which I've named "oldlinux"
in lilo, at level 1, I'd do:

oldlinux 1

-- 
Travis Casey
efindel at earthlink.net